Tipsheet – Decision Making 201: Matrices and Navigating Conflict in the Process
This Tipsheet overviews decision making matrices, navigating common problems with them, and how to optimize participation and minimize conflict in the process.
Research
We create and synthesize research to answer advocates' key questions.
The Climate Advocacy Lab’s research program produces actionable insights that help organizations build power and win.
Over the past eight years, we have worked with dozens of climate, clean energy, and climate justice organizations to help answer the community’s biggest questions. We are able to draw from our in-house research knowledge as well as the considerable expertise of our membership of social scientists, organizers, and field researchers.
Our research has helped advocates:
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Develop more effective public engagement campaigns
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Better connect with target audiences
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Save on valuable resources like money and staff time
How we work
The Lab and our in-house social scientists foster research and experimentation in a variety of ways, from conducting and commissioning original studies ourselves, to facilitating and participating in partnerships with social and data scientists and advocates on the ground, providing financial, training, and consulting support to projects, and building pathways for funder investments in critical research. And we complete the research-to-practice loop by leveraging these research findings to power the Lab’s best practice recommendations and training program.
We train advocates to work with three main categories of evidence to help ensure our efforts are resulting in the desired impact:
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Field Research
The Lab works with field and academic partners to create original research that helps organizations build power and informs the wider climate advocacy community.
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Knowledge Synthesis
The Lab collects knowledge on public engagement and movement-building from sources like academic research, public opinion, field experiments, and campaign case studies and distills it into accessible, actionable materials for climate advocates.
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Consulting
The Lab provides research expertise or relevant connections to other research experts for climate advocates seeking to answer questions that will enhance the effectiveness of their work and inform the community.
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The Transpartisan Opportunity of Data Centers
In this newsletter, we’ll examine how this transpartisan moment provides climate advocates with an opportunity to build strategic connections with communities across the aisle, to make progress on issues of common interest.
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